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A spot check of fast food prices over the past five years shows prices rising much faster than the official Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index's 21% rise. Big Macs are 88% more costly. Taco Bell burritos are up 118%, and Chick-Fil A nuggets are up 96%. Erika McEntarfer, Commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, explained that "we use a 'hedonic' adjustment factor to account for the technological improvements that make products more enjoyable. A simplistic comparison of a 2024 Bic Mac with a 2019 Big Mac fails to account for the value of the increased consumer...

Aug 18, 2022TRANSCRIPT BEGINSReporter: ….ah but ut she’s had the flu for 14 days. Should she get a flu shot.Fauci: Well no, if she got the flu for 14 days she’s as protected as anybody can be, ‘cause the best vaccination is to get infected yourself.Reporter: And, if….Fauci: If she really has the flu, if she really has the flu, she definitely doesn’t need a flu vaccine. If she really has the flu.Reporter: She should not get it again…Fauci: No. She doesn’t need it, because the most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself.

More than 300 COVID-19-related articles have been retracted — long after they’d done their damage — due to a lack of scientific truthfulness and ethical guidelines, according to Retraction Watch, a website that monitors retractions of science-related articles.A total of 330 COVID-related papers have been retracted thus far.According to Gunnveig Grødeland, a senior researcher at the Institute of Immunology at the University of Oslo, many researchers took ethical shortcuts when writing their essays.“It will, of course, be withdrawn when it is found that ethical guidelines have been breached,” Grødeland quipped to Khrono, an academic news publication.Grødeland states that there were...